first in the world to fly chaired remotely – New Technology

     Here is the control center in Sundsvall remote control air traffic in Örnsköldsvik Airport.

All permits are in place. Örnsköldsvik Airport became the first airport where air traffic control is done remotely.

     Click image for larger version. The air traffic controllers should sit in Sundsvall and redirect the plan on 15 mile distance using cameras. Graphics: Jonas Askergren and Anders Vikhult

Transport Agency provides LFV permission to remotely control tower in Örnsköldsvik, Sundsvall. This makes the airport the world’s first traffic remotely.

The technology has been developed by defense company Saab in collaboration with LFV. The goal is to lower the cost of air traffic in small towns where air traffic is sparse. To instead allow a central air traffic manage several small airports will be cheaper than having five or six air traffic controllers who take turns manning each tower.

Traffic on Örnsköldsvik airport comes from the first quarter of 2015 to be controlled from Midlanda airport outside Sundsvall. New Technology visited just over a year since the new air traffic control center located in a plain building on Midlanda.

Even then gave 14 man- screens with full HD resolution a pretty good feeling of being at Örnsköldsvik airport about 15 mil from there. Everything that happened in Örnsköldsvik airport was captured by a tower with 14 high-resolution cameras, zoom cameras, microphones and sensors.

Transport Agency state applies only remotely of Örnsköldsviks airport. If further control tower to be controlled remotely required additional approvals.